JUST IN: French State TV, France 3, was caught altering a photo of the #GiletsJaunes protest this weekend. To the left you see the original picture quoting ‘Macron Degage’, which means Macron ‘get out’. To the left you see how France 3 removed ‘Degage’ from the protesters sign.

WATCH: Yesterday, France 3 apologized for ‘altering the picture’ and claimed a ‘human error’ was responsible for the ‘mistake’: Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

CORRECTION: ‘To the *RIGHT* you see how France 3 removed ‘Degage’ from the protesters sign’ (Not to the left)

2- John Holdren, Obama’s “Science Czar”, born on March 1, 1944, with bachelors in aeronautics, astronautics & a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics is the most controversial “killer scientist” who has ever put his feet in the White House.

3-His radical views & theories of killing, aborting, eliminating, terminating, sterilizing of the human population through embryo’s, women and drinking water are so heinous that people attack us 4 even quoting his statements without spending the time to see he really wrote them.

When a dissident movement is first forming an identity, a flag to rally behind is important. But there is a tipping point wherein that flag ceases to be a rallying cry and becomes a means of containment, a way to define that movement as the other
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The yellow vests are an Avatar for the disenfranchisement of the French people

We are told these protests are about fuel taxes over and over by the media, but the spark the lights a flame is not the same as the raging inferno that it facilitates3/

#Update: Video of police on the ground in #Paris to search protestors in case of weapons! as the 5th weekend of #GiletsJaunes protest arrive in #France! #Acte5 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

2-Lieutenant-General Adolf Heusinger (left) & Lieutenant-General Hans Speidel, Chief of Army Group B, later provided 4 the smooth integration of the Bundeswehr into NATO, with Federal Minister of Defense Theodor Blank on presentation of the certificates of appointment (pic below)

3-Adolf Heusinger (Aug 4, 1897 – Nov 30, 1982), Chief of the General Staff of the Nazi Army during World War II & the first Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, the West German armed forces, from 1957 to 1961 became the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.

So Remain might want to take stock that it's their beloved EU, who are, once again, stuffing their desires. 'No Deal' works for me. Two quarters of mild recession will be ameliorated by the money saved.

So @Theresa_May, if the EU will not put a temporal limit on the backstop, WE should put one on it. Pass the deal and pass a simultaneous law that we withdraw from the deal in two years. Hard Brexit in two years, two years prep time. Easy! Job done.

Alternatively, just no deal.

I'm frankly tired of these posturing idiots in Brussels, who, under attack by Russia with its #GiletsJaunes active measures, and faced with Russian puppet Orban going full fascist, turn their fire on their friends in London instead. No deal & no problem.

If the interview was legitimate and the translation accurate, then in the milieu of twitter, the question becomes, “who is pushing that narrative?” We may never know, but let's look at Twitter activity related to calls for Macron's resignation/removal.

We downloaded tweets containing any of the following hashtags, resulting in 271426 tweets from 75302 accounts over the last 10 days.

We downloaded tweets containing #Frexit and/or "Frexit", resulting in 38326 tweets from 19998 accounts in the last 10 days. The French volume is fairly steady, but the English volume spiked over the weekend of 12/8 - 12/9.

Retweet network for #Frexit/Frexit. The accounts tweeting in French are densely clustered, indicating a high degree of interaction/ongoing discussion. Several English-language accounts achieved high retweet volume, but little interaction with the existing French accounts.

There are loads of studies on the distributional impacts of carbon taxes, and they show that they have a regressive impact (unless you redistribute revenue) - but *less so for transport* than for domestic energy. Why that?

Well transport GHG emissions increase very rapidly with income - much more so than domestic energy (graph for 🇬🇧 from goo.gl/dcZz5v). Middle & high-income groups own more (& more powerful cars) & travel much longer distances. The income gradient is quite steep

Disclosures:
- I was contacted by the journalists about their investigation but never got an answer to my reply (attached).
- I was approached by Botswatch in Person in 2017 and did a video call with their team to explain my approach (unpaid).

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The article doesn't explain how the bots were identified. Therefore it's impossible to confirm or falsify the claim.

I know of three approaches:
- Machine learning (botometer, botrnot, etc.). Features of accounts are compared to features of known bots (learning set). /3